Juletta Ashby Jordan was a teacher and newspaperwoman in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who left her husband and went to live with her mother and sister, "Said" Beck, near Blackwell, Oklahoma Territory, where Juletta became active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union. "Said" Beck, was the widow of Addison Beck, a deputy United States Marshal who was killed on September 27, 1883 while attempting to arrest two whiskey peddlers in the Indian Territory west of Fort Smith.

Reputed to have built the first home in Ponca City and holder of the title of "first citizen" there. He was a builder who constructed most of the buildings on Grand Avenue.

A "staff favorite" at the Library of Congress, this collection of documents is of Kay Countian Otto Leven, who served in the army during World War I. He was the son of German immigrants and spent most of his twenty-three civilian years on his family’s farms in Kay County. He was assigned to the 90th Infantry Division and served in the 357th Regiment.

One of Oklahoma's best-known frontier photographers, he annually photographed Indian Territory beginning with his first trip in 1883. He was also present for the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in September 1893 and opened a photography gallery in Blackwell.